Cookies

GAYLORD - The sun will be shining and The Cookies will be hot from the oven at 3 p.m. Saturday when they “christen the stage” and amphitheater at the Otsego Conservation District's Demonstration Garden. The popular dance band was scheduled to perform last Sunday, but stormy weather prompted cancellation. The Rotary Club of Gaylord invites the community to the event, free of charge, in appreciation of ongoing support of the club and its many service projects. Rotary helped provide funds for the new outdoor venue, located off Livingston Boulevard near Gaylord High School.

LEWISTON - She's attracted faithful followers to her Lewiston neighborhood for the past 18 years with her homemade decorated treats, dressed in orange with a huge smile that warms the hearts of children of all ages. Since Halloween 1994, Penny Render has baked nearly 1,500 pumpkin cookies to hand out to children, and now their children, who have come, not only to appreciate, but to expect them. Render, 90, made 144 of the dinner plate-size delectable cookies this year with approximately 100 trick-or-treaters stopping by for a treat.

GAYLORD ­— The Girl Scouts and their ever-popular cookies are coming to a Main Street near you. More specifically, they are coming to 104 W. Main St., Gaylord, and they’ll be there beginning today (Saturday) through Wednesday, April 13. The cookies will be sold by the Girl Scouts’ Gaylord Service Unit which is composed of Brownie, Junior, Cadette, Senior and Ambassador troops. The girls range in age from 7 to 18. The Scouts also will be selling by the traditional methods of giving their families and friends the opportunity to purchase, going door-to-door and offering the cookies at various locations around town.

GAYLORD - The Ralph Holewinski Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 1518 has issued an invitation to all the children in the community to its Cookies with Santa celebration from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21, at the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) building, 315 E. Huron St. “It's free and there will be a visit from Santa, cookies and drinks, and pretty nice gifts for each child,” said Joe Marsiglia, VFW member and one of the organizers of the event along with VFW member Marcy Beauchesne.

JOHANNESBURG - “Preheat your ovens to 350, bake time of about 12-15 minutes ... The Cookies are a dance pop group with one goal ... to get you on the floor,” begins the Facebook description of a local band with a delectable name and unique style. The Cookies will be one of the many bands performing at the popular Farmfest celebration, which will take place Thursday through Sunday, Aug. 8-11, at its usual off-the-beaten-track location near Johannesburg. The Cookies are a newly created band specializing in music for everyone including Motown, disco, funk, R&B, as well as contemporary Top 40 hits.

ELMIRA - She's baked cookies all week long - snicker doodles, chocolate chip, oatmeal, Swedish butter balls, Scottish shortbread, candy cane cookies, pecan party cakes - for the troops overseas. "I'm up to my neck in chocolate chip cookies," said Connie Turner during a telephone interview Thursday. Though Turner has been baking cookies for the troops for the past year, she joined the other estimated 700 Michiganders for Saturday's Great American Cookie Swap. The swap took place across America, with more than 16,500 United States citizens registered to host a cookie swap.

On Dec. 18, Sheridan Elementary School's student council delivered cookies, dog and cat food, and hats, gloves and scarves to the town of Petoskey. We went to the humane society, Spitler building, fire station, Grandpa Shorter's, Manna, the Nehemiah House, and the hospital. The students of Sheridan School and their families donated pet food and clothing during the month of December. We also had two bins in the lobby to vote for which one the students liked best: either the Easter Bunny or Santa.

GAYLORD ? Time is running out to place an order for the Otsego County Historical Society (OCHS) ?Grandma?s Favorite Christmas Cookies,? fundraising sale. The cookies, which contain an assortment of two dozen cookies will be gift packaged and ready for Christmas giving. Deadline to place an order is Thursday, with a two-dozen-sized box of cookies selling for $14 each. Proceeds will help the OCHS to maintain the community?s historical museum. The gift-packaged boxes feature a selection of old-fashioned cookies including snickerdoodles, gingersnaps, oatmeal raisin, chocolate mint, English toffee and iced sugar cookies.

Petoskey Senior Girl Scout Troop 379 will be accepting donations toward Girl Scout cookies to be shipped to local soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan and selling cookies from 3:30-9:30 p.m. Friday, April 24, at Wal-Mart. Over the past five years, Girl Scout Troop 379 and VFW Post 2051 have sent more than 60,000 cookies to local soldiers serving abroad. For the sixth and final year, the scouts are seeking donations from area businesses, service groups, churches and individuals to send a taste of home to those serving on our behalf.

GAYLORD - The sun will be shining and The Cookies will be hot from the oven at 3 p.m. Saturday when they “christen the stage” and amphitheater at the Otsego Conservation District's Demonstration Garden. The popular dance band was scheduled to perform last Sunday, but stormy weather prompted cancellation. The Rotary Club of Gaylord invites the community to the event, free of charge, in appreciation of ongoing support of the club and its many service projects. Rotary helped provide funds for the new outdoor venue, located off Livingston Boulevard near Gaylord High School.

GAYLORD - The Rotary Club of Gaylord invites the community to a free concert from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the new outdoor stage and amphitheater at the Otsego Conservation District's Demonstration Garden, featuring Gaylord's popular dance band The Cookies. Rotary helped provide funds for the stage and is presenting the new venue's inaugural event to thank the community for ongoing support of the club and its service projects. The stage is located at the south end of the 3-acre garden that can be accessed at the intersection of McLouth Road and Cross Street or off Livingston Boulevard near Gaylord High School.

JOHANNESBURG - “Preheat your ovens to 350, bake time of about 12-15 minutes ... The Cookies are a dance pop group with one goal ... to get you on the floor,” begins the Facebook description of a local band with a delectable name and unique style. The Cookies will be one of the many bands performing at the popular Farmfest celebration, which will take place Thursday through Sunday, Aug. 8-11, at its usual off-the-beaten-track location near Johannesburg. The Cookies are a newly created band specializing in music for everyone including Motown, disco, funk, R&B, as well as contemporary Top 40 hits.

My Grandma Winell was known for her baking skills. You couldn't leave her house without some kind of treat in your belly, nor would you want to. She made these butter cookies at Christmastime that were a family staple. Shaped like crescent moons, they were lightly frosted and melted in your mouth. I may be only slightly exaggerating when I say her cherry pie would cause family feuds over who would get the last piece. There was her vanilla ice cream roll with homemade chocolate sauce.

GAYLORD - What would you give for a few homemade cookies? What would you give to save a few lives? The answer to both questions: a pint of blood. That opportunity is available from noon to 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, at the American Red Cross Blood Drive, sponsored by the Gaylord Herald Times, at the F.O.E. Eagles Club, 515 S. Wisconsin Ave. Mike Reling from Eagle 101.5 will broadcast live from the blood drive from noon until 2 p.m. to help promote the event. “We do this every year,” said Paul Gunderson, Herald Times general manager.

On Dec. 18, Sheridan Elementary School's student council delivered cookies, dog and cat food, and hats, gloves and scarves to the town of Petoskey. We went to the humane society, Spitler building, fire station, Grandpa Shorter's, Manna, the Nehemiah House, and the hospital. The students of Sheridan School and their families donated pet food and clothing during the month of December. We also had two bins in the lobby to vote for which one the students liked best: either the Easter Bunny or Santa.

PETOSKEY -- For fans of one downtown Petoskey shop's house-baked treats, times may not be jolly. Keith Jolly, owner of Jolly's Cookies & Cafe, said Saturday was the Mitchell Street shop's last day open. "Now we're just cleaning house and trying to sell equipment," he added. Jolly noted that the shop's lease for its space recently expired. The space ultimately turned out to be about 50 percent larger than ideal for an operation like Jolly's, "and you're paying for square footage," he added.

Dear Santa, How are you dowing? I trid to not fit with mi bruthr. I hop you come to my hos Leve me a lot of presis if you do I want BayBlas and a iPad mine. Have a god flit. Love, Connor first grade, Petoskey Dear Santa, Will you come down my chimney? I am going to give you cookies. Sometimes I will make some cookies. How do you hide presents? Everything is good. Santa is good. Love, Daniel first grade, Pellston Dear Santa, Will you come to my house?

GAYLORD - The Ralph Holewinski Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 1518 has issued an invitation to all the children in the community to its Cookies with Santa celebration from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21, at the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) building, 315 E. Huron St. “It's free and there will be a visit from Santa, cookies and drinks, and pretty nice gifts for each child,” said Joe Marsiglia, VFW member and one of the organizers of the event along with VFW member Marcy Beauchesne.